Former
Director of Agricultural Development and Diversification at the
Wisconsin Department of Agriculture Trade and Consumer
Protection. His responsibilities included agriculture development
and diversification (ADD grant program, statewide aquaculture
development, development of new uses (industry products from
agricultural crops and commodities) and coordination of diversification
assistance to farmers and small agribusiness. In 2001 retired
from the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer
Protection after 35 years. He currently manages his 110 acre farm
in Dane County Wisconsin and is engaged in agricultural policy
marketing and management consulting. Serves as Chairman of the
North American Industrial Hemp Council, Inc. (NAIHC) and Director of
Dane County Family Support Services, Inc., Senior Market Consultant to
the US Biodiesel Systems, and organizing Director of the Southern
Wisconsin Agri-Ventures Group. Formerly served as Chairman and
Director of the National New Uses Council, Inc. (NUC); Director and
Chairman of the National Association of State Aquaculture Coordinators
(NASAC), Director of the World Dairy Expo (WDE), Director of the World
Beef Expo (WBE) and served as Secretary of the International Chamber of
Agriculture (ICA). He received his B.S. degree in Agricultural
Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his MS degree in
Agricultural Economics and Finance from the University of Arizona.

Gale Glenn was
appointed by Kentucky Governor Brereton Jones to the Task Force on
Industrial Hemp and Other Fiber Related Crops. She is one of the
original members of the Board of Directors of the North American
Industrial Hemp Council, a graduate of Marymount Manhattan College, now
a retired farmer and grandmother of seven. Her 300-acre Kentucky
farm consisted of angus/cross beef cattle and produced 50,000 pounds of
burley tobacco.

As a marketing
representative for the Illinois Department of Agriculture, Karen
Fraase's main initiatives are to expand new and unique commodity
markets for agriculture, to work with Illinois food and agribusiness
companies in expanding their markets and to cultivate ways to put
agriculture in Illinois' classrooms. She worked with Illinois'
Industrial Hemp Investigate and Advisory Task Force and assists farmers
in developing new markets for renewal commodities. She serves on
several volunteer boards in her community and in the agricultural
industry. Karen grew up on a grain and livestock farm in Nokomis,
Illinois, graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in
agricultural communications, and recently graduated from Illinois' two
year Agricultural Leadership Program.

Former
executive director of the Oregon Natural Resources Council, the
organization known best for having brought you the spotted owl. Retired
after two decades with ONRC, Now consults on environmental issues and
politics. Author of Oregon Desert Guide.
Participated, by invitation of President, in the Northwest Forest
Conference held in 1993. Work on behalf of forests has been featured in
several books and a play. Featured on all major television news and
morning shows and lectured at all major Oregon Universities, as well as
the McGeorge School of Law, Yale University and Harvard University.
David Seideman, in SHOWDOWN AT OPAL CREEK,
described Kerr as the "Ralph Nader of the old-growth-preservation
movement." The "state's leading environmentalist" according to the VILLAGE VOICE. Called a "White Collar Terrorist," by TIME,
referring to his effectiveness in working within the system and
striking fear in the hearts of those who exploit Oregon's natural
environment. Characterized by the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR as "one of the toughest environmental professionals in the Pacific Northwest."

Stanley Blunier is owner and manager of Blunier Farms, a
family farm that produces corn, soybeans, and swine near Forrest, Illinois.
His wife, Peg, son, Kent, and daughter, Lisa, are involved in the farming
operation. He graduated with a BS degree in Agriculture from the University of Illinois and is a graduate of the two
year Illinois Agricultural Leaders Program. Stanley
was a founder and continues as a director of Illinois River Energy, LLC, a 100
million gallon ethanol plant, at Rochelle,
Illinois, serving as chairman of
the Risk Management and Marketing Committee. He was also instrumental in
forming and was President of Producers Alliance, and was Chairman of 21st
Century Producer, Inc, both of which assisted their members with agricultural business opportunities in production,
marketing, and value-added investments. Stanley
also was one of the founders and serves as a director of Prairie Investment
Group, LLC; formed to own and make investments in agriculturally related
businesses. Board seats have also been held by him on the Illinois Farm Bureau
Board, the Illinois Corn Growers Association, the Illinois Corn Marketing
Board, and the Country Companies Insurance Board. Blunier has been awarded the
Prairie Farmers Master Farmer Award and the Livingston County Corn
Growers Distinguished Service Award For Agriculture.

Jeff Gain
currently manages his farm in Calhoun County, Illinois, and is engaged
in agricultural policy, marketing and management
consulting. Served as chair of the Alternative Agricultural
Research & Commercialization (AARC) Board. Gain is a former
executive director for the American Soybean Association and former CEO
of the National Corn Growers Association. One of the founders, and
former chair, of the New Uses Council (NUC) which serves as an advocate
for the commercialization of new uses and to help coordinate public and
private sector initiatives to develop new industrial agricultural
products. Gain is one of the founders of the St. Louis Agri
Business Club and was named Agri Business Leader of the
Year. Served as member of the USDA's New Farm and Forest Products
Task Force that resulted in new industrial use initiatives in U.S.
agriculture. Recipient of the American Crop Protection
Association's Outstanding Leadership Award for efforts in new uses and
has traveled on various marketing missions around the world. He
is a native of Rushville, Illinois and graduated from the University of
Illinois with BS in management. Served as a Public Information
Officer and as an admiral's aide in the Coast Guard. Served as
Executive Secretary for several Illinois County Farm Bureaus and
Director of Commodity Programs for the Illinois Agricultural
Association.

Mr. Kimbell is retired Vice President for
Marketing, IWC Resources Corporation, Indianapolis, a water utility
holding company sold in 1997 to NiSource, Inc. Prior business
experience includes sales assignments for A. E. Staley Manufacturing
Company, and as an independent marketer of food ingredients, having
established Indiana Marketing Associates, Inc., Indianapolis, in 1965.
He was elected to two terms in the Indianapolis City-County Council,
1972-1979. From 1980 to 1988, he served as Deputy Executive Director
for Marketing, Indiana Department of Commerce, leading the Divisions of
Agriculture, Industrial Development, International Trade, and
Tourism. Mr. Kimbell is currently non-executive Chairman of
Distribution Management Associates, Inc. Indianapolis, and serves as
Director and Treasurer of Indians, Inc., Indianapolis' International
League Baseball Club. He is a graduate of Middlebury College (1953),
and is a 2004 recipient of a Distinguished Service Award in Food
Science from Purdue University.

Malcolm
Associates, Investment Consultants, provides technology evaluation and
economic analysis services, primarily to the pulp and paper
industry. Malcolm Associates, also, provides portfolio management
services for individual, institutional, and trust accounts. Mr. Koster
retired in 1998 after twenty years with International Paper where he
had varied responsibilities including: manager, Technology Evaluation;
controller, Science and Technology Division; Technology project manager
for major mill and paper machine reconfigurations and manager, New
Business Development. Early in his career, Mr. Koster served three
years as an US Air Force Officer as Chief, Stellar Camera Operations
for the 1381st Geodetic Survey Squadron which provided satellite
tracking support for the early space flight and U-2 aerial surveillance
programs at Cape Canaveral. Subsequent to the Air Force, he spent
thirteen years with Union Carbide in the Mining & Metals, Nuclear,
Electronics (Oceanographic Instruments), and Linde Industrial Gas
Divisions. He held management positions that included production,
facility design, and product development for the largest commercial
operation engaged in the manufacture of basic radiochemical and
radiopharmaceutical products. His education: ME Stevens Institute of
Technology; MS Metallurgy and Materials Sciences, New York University;
MS Engineering Science (Oceanography), New York University; MBA
(Finance) Pace University.

Dr. Mahlberg
is Professor Emeritus of Biology (plant biology) and Senior Fellow of
the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Indiana University.
Received Ph.D. in Botany at the University of California, Berkeley and
MS and BS degrees in Botany at the University of Wisconsin,
Madison. Has studied Cannabis, for over 30 years and has
published over 30 articles on Cannabis. Wrote Laboratory Program
in Plant Anatomy, and published two educational films. Wrote the book
(with art work by his wife) Wildflowers of Door County--Wisconsin's
Unique Floral Preserve. He served as a consulting editor to
Academic Press in the preparation of ten monographs. He
collaborated with Dr. Ivan Bocsa, Kompolt, Hungary (internationally
known hemp breeder), in a three-year USDA-sponsored research study on
hemp, and with Dr. Eun Soo Kim, Seoul, Korea, on organization and
composition of glandular trichomes in Cannabis and related
plants. Served as a consultant to United Nations Industrial
Organization, Vienna, on industrial processing of raw opiates, to the
University of Mississippi, School of Pharmacy in its Cannabis program,
and to private companies in studies on secondary products of plants.
Former member of the board of directors of the Door County (Wisconsin)
Land Trust which is dedicated to preservation of ecologically important
land.

President of
Miller Consulting Group, a Jackson, Mississippi firm active in
promoting and facilitating the commercialization of new technologies
(mechanical and biological) into industry. Reared in Western
North Carolina and attended Clemson College majoring in Mechanical
Engineering. Previous affiliations include VP Sawmill Equipment
Co., Jackson, Mississippi; Chief Engineer and Director of Manufacturing
Technology for Southern Lumber Division, Masonite Corporation; Region
Manager, Union Camp Corporation. Retired from Union Camp
Corporation in 1997 as Technical Director, Forest Resources Division,
Savannah, GA. Over the past 8 years has maintained significant
research initiatives with the USDA in the area of new uses of
agricultural crops. Areas of special emphasis include pine
silvaculture and Alternative Agricultural Crops including
Phyto-medicinal and Oil Bearing Plants. Miller Consulting Group
was organized in 1998 and serves a variety of clients throughout the
United States in the field of Agricultural Products Utilization.

Farmer. Superintendent in Edinburg.
Board member NAIHC. Board member NEM. Board member UUSE. Board member
NCCSTV. BS and Med degrees University of North Dakota. Knights of
Pythias, PGC. Eagles. North Dakota Council of Educational Leaders.
Farm Bureau. President Dovre Lutheran Church. Married. 3 children.
Wife's name Mary. House of
Representatives since 1993.
David Monson
was born and raised in Cavalier County, a very rural area of
northeastern North Dakota. He was raised on his family's farm,
went to college at the University of North Dakota, and graduated from
there in 1972 with a BS degree in Education. He taught science
and psychology in southeastern North Dakota for three years until he
and his wife, Mary, decided to move back home to help his dad run the
family farm. He farmed in the summers and taught school in the
winters. He got into educational administration as a secondary
principal in 1976 and as a school superintendent in 1979. He
switched careers in 1988 when he took over the family farm completely
and began an insurance business. He was elected to the ND House of
Representatives in 1992. In 1994 he got back into educational
administration as a school superintendent, kept the insurance business,
kept farming, and was re-elected to the ND House. Now he is
semi-retired from education and is part-time superintendent at Edinburg
School District. He is no
longer in the insurance business. (Something had to give!) He and
his wife Mary have three
sons. Cordell is teaching music recording in Minneapolis where he
also has his own band. Cale is a mechanical engineer living in
Hoople, ND, with his wife Kristeen who is a math teacher in Grafton,
ND. Jared works in Moorhead, MN in a dealership body shop and
lives in
Fargo.

R. James Woolsey joined Booz Allen
Hamilton in July 2002 as a Vice President and officer in the
firm’s Global Resilience practice, located in McLean,
Virginia. Previously Mr. Woolsey served in the U.S. Government on
five different occasions, where he held Presidential appointments in
two Republican and two Democratic administrations. He was also
previously a partner at the law firm of Shea & Gardner in
Washington, DC, where he practiced for 22 years in the fields of civil
litigation and alternative dispute resolution. During his 12 years
of government service Mr. Woolsey was: Director of Central
Intelligence from 1993 to 1995; Ambassador to the Negotiation on
Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), Vienna, 1989–1991;
Under Secretary of the Navy, 1977–1979; and General Counsel to
the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services, 1970–1973. He
was also appointed by the President as Delegate at Large to the
U.S.–Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) and Nuclear
and Space Arms Talks (NST), and served in that capacity on a part-time
basis in Geneva, Switzerland, 1983–1986. As an officer in
the U.S. Army, he was an adviser on the U.S. Delegation to the
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I), Helsinki and Vienna,
1969–1970. Mr. Woolsey is currently the Chairman of the
Board of Freedom House, the Chairman of the Advisory Boards of the
Clean Fuels Foundation and the New Uses Council, and a Trustee of the
Center for Strategic & International Studies and the Center for
Strategic & Budgetary Assessments. He also serves on the
National Commission on Energy Policy. Previously, he was Chairman
of the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents of The Smithsonian
Institution, and a trustee of Stanford University, The Goldwater
Scholarship Foundation, and the Aerospace Corporation. He has also been
a member of The National Commission on Terrorism, 1999–2000; The
Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the U.S. (Rumsfeld
Commission), 1998; The President’s Commission on Federal Ethics
Law Reform, 1989; The President’s Blue Ribbon Commission on
Defense Management (Packard Commission), 1985–1986; and The
President’s Commission on Strategic Forces (Scowcroft
Commission), 1983. Mr. Woolsey is presently a principal in the
Homeland Security Fund of Paladin Capital Group and a member of the
board of directors of three privately held companies, in fields related
to infrastructure protection, resilience, and security. He also serves
as Vice Chairman of the Advisory Board of Global Options LLC. He
has served in the past as a member of boards of directors of a number
of other publicly and privately held companies, generally in fields
related to technology and security, including Martin Marietta; British
Aerospace, Inc.; Fairchild Industries; Yurie Systems, Inc.; and
USF&G. He also served as a member of the Board of Governors
of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange. Mr. Woolsey was born in
Tulsa, Oklahoma, and attended Tulsa public schools, graduating from
Tulsa Central High School. He received his B.A. degree from
Stanford University (1963, With Great Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa), an
M.A. from Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar 1963–1965), and an
LL.B from Yale Law School (1968, Managing Editor of the Yale Law
Journal). Mr. Woolsey is a frequent contributor of articles to
major publications, and from time to time gives public speeches and
media interviews on the subjects of foreign affairs, defense, energy,
critical infrastructure protection and resilience, and intelligence. He
is married to Suzanne Haley Woolsey and they have three sons, Robert,
Daniel, and Benjamin.